Evidently, the aspect of acoustical comfort
as opposed to the thermal comfort
was a matter of lesser concern so the knowledge and solutions here are much scarcer.
As we saw [3] the number of people that require sheltering is continuously increasing. The impact of this is truly global and requires immediate action. The solutions must become better and more sustainable.
Specifically, by far we can’t see any research that tries to deal with the problems of thermal and acoustical comfort simultaneously. Developing an enclosure concept that takes into consideration both aspects may be beneficial.
On the other hand, until now the design processes were mainly human creativity driven and few optimization techniques may have been applied. By using nowadays available computation power we can evaluate hundreds of solutions in a row and determine the best possible properties in given constraints.
The research will aim to develop a solution of an emergency membrane shelter that will be optimized both in terms of thermal and acoustical comfort with
high
degree of localization.